The Mad Poets Blog

There’s just something about Mondays that requires a little extra boost of good news.  So, why not help us all out and shamelessly self-promote your good news!

And think ahead: I can’t promise we’ll be shameless self-promoting next Monday, since it’s Labor Day.

THURS., SEPTEMBER 6^TH, AT 7 PM

MAD POETS present A SMATTERING OF NEW VOICES, featuring ANNA MENDOZA, ADAM COBEN & ALLA VILNYANSKAYA (See bio notes below!) at MILK BOY COFFEE /ACOUSTIC CAFE, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., in the Bryn Mawr Film Institute (Bryn Mawr, PA 19010); Tel: 610-527-0690, hosted by AUTUMN KONOPKA! Check out our newest venue and find out what everyone is talking about! AND HANG AROUND AFTERWARDS! At 9 pm, there will be music at Milk Boy !! Our reading will run from 7-9 pm, then MUSIC. Stay tuned for other upcoming mad events, some mentioned below - For info, see www.madpoetssociety.com (Also, at the bottom - a little appeal from your “mad” editor.)

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It’s Monday, which means its time for some shameless self-promotion:  Tell us all about how awesome you are & where or how we can find out for ourselves.

Just plug in a comment telling us where you’re reading or performing, where your poems are published, when your book or CD is coming out, etc. etc. etc. All news is good news.

And after you tell us about you, click on that little “Notify me” box to receive emails of everyone else’s shamelessness from this week.

Poet Dee Rimbaud has recently added a new feature to his website. He has links and photographs of over 800 poets and writers, past and present. It is worth a look and the link is

http://www.rimbaud.org.uk/links3.html

If you have a website you would like  Dee to consider adding you can contact him at

dee.rimbaud@googlemail.com

… it’s a little late in the afternoon… but it’s still Monday, so that means there’s still time to be shameless.

What’re you doin’ this week? Next? Where can we find your poem? Story? Book? CD?

C’mon yous guys, lay it on us.

Lately I’ve been reading a lot of online journals. It’s a faster, easier, cheaper way of seeing what’s being published in the poetry world. Standard print journals like Poetry and American Poetry Review are, of course, wonderful – but again, they’re expensive and slow to come (being published once every two months). I’m impatient. And online, there is an infinite variety of journals to choose from - instant gratification. So here are a few of my favorite, in no particular order (well, actually, in alphabetical order): (Continued)

…was it ever gone? you ask.

Well, from this site it has been. Because I’ve totally fallen down on my job of kicking the shamelessness into action each Monday.

But no more. Fire away kids. Got a reading coming up? New series starting off in the fall? A workshop or class? A book or CD? Tell the blogosphere about it.

And don’t forget, be as shameless as you need to be.

John Bourne & Adele Bourne

Hosted by Glenn McLaughlin
Featured readings followed by open mic

Churchill Artisan Baker & Chocolatier
137 E. High Street
Pottstown, PA 19464
484-941-5100

*See the full schedule for this series.